AT&T Alters Pricing In Wake of Verizon Announcement

Youv'e got to be kidding me !

Ok Im gonna keep this as brief as possible. Both Verizon and Att have got to be nuts these prices are still ridiculous 70 for unlimited TALK and thats it. Come on already Im not saying the name beacause im not advertising but im using a prepaid provider hmm mmm cough cough under a certain network with a great phone and have unlimited talk text and like 200pics for 40 bucks. When are the contract carriers really gonna wake up. I mean when I heard an announcement was comming I really expected something better then this and they wanna charge data on the nokia twist and other phones so stupid!!! att;s own go phone service is cheaper for 60 they have unlimited talk and messaging what the heck????

What do you mean prepaid phones have limited coverage, ATT prepaid phones work off the same exact towers that contract phone do.

And they have lower priority compared to contract phones, are you saying that if I make a phone call, and if a prepaid customer make a phone call and we are on the same cell tower, that a tower wouldn't let a prepaid customer make that phone call, cause I'm a post paid customer? Is that what your saying?

and yes, I am saying that if you were on that tower using a phone and say browsing the web, the prepaid customer would get a lower priority than the post paid customer. SO if the network became strained, the prepaid customer would be cut off.

Isn't a phone from ATT even though it's prepaid, different than a phone from an MVNO, I mean that I can understand because it's not the MVNO's native network, but if it's an ATT prepaid phone, and it's ATT's cell tower is their native network.

eh.. not from what I've seen. maybe they changed it. But big cell companies have always tended to treat prepay customers as second class citizens. Trust me, if ATT could offer unlimited text and data on a contract phone for 60 a month they would, just because it would give them an edge (for however long it took verizon to match).

With reguards to this if ATT did this stuff. ATT or any other carrier could do anything that want, they just don't because of greed, it all boils down to greed. If they don't HAVE to do something because another carrier doesn't do it, then they don't.

I'm really curious how much the wireless landscape is going to change between now and say the end of 2012, beginning of 2013, I just have a feeling a whole, whole lot is going to change.

Ok I will, but right now I'm just having trouble keeping up weith this topic, it's a really hot discussion that I've been getting a whole lot of responses on, but I'll check it out, the words "what's next" definetly aren't hard to remember. I'm always into "what's next" topics.

Im not gonna get kicked off for advertising and im not an employee Ill make that clear lets just say there initials are PP and theres plenty of other providers like them heck even Sprint has better deals

Any idea as to how many of the two combined companies customers amount to? Even 20 million? Heck, I would think that the way the economy is, that a whole, whole lot of people out there would be leaving the big 4 to get these unlimited voice & txt plans for $40/mo.

Jayshmay said:Probably Metro will buy Cricket. I'm sure it won't be much longer til we know.

Its logical they do, they already work with each other. And I think they tried a few years back. I'm not a fan of either but they do serve a section of the market. If you rarely travel, don't need a fancy phone, just voice and text. It fits that need.